Delivering-horn for talking-machines.



"N0. 341,795. PATENTED JAN-22, 1907. I w. J. LLTTS.

DELIVERING HORN FOR TALKING MAGHINES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22.1b05.

1 To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WniLrs J. LITTS, a citi-' {UNITED srATEs PATENT orrion.

winms J. LITTS, OFJAYNESVILLE, WISCONSIN.

DELIVERING-HORN Specification of Letters Patent.

Fon TALKING-MACHINES.

Patented Jan. 22-, 1907.

Application filed August 22, 1905. Serial No. 275,268.

' zen of the United States, residing at J aynesclear, and exact description 0 j ville, in the county ofliock and Stateof Wisoonsin, have invented a new and useful Delivering-Horn for Talking-Machines; and I do hereby declare the. followin to be a full, the invention,

.such fas will enable others skilled in the art to This invention relates to talking-machines,

which it appertains to make and use the same.

and more particularly to a collapsible dolly-- crin -horn composed of a series of sections and saving novel means for holding each sec- ,tionpf the series in locked relation when the same iscolla sed and packed ivithin a metallictube fors -pment.

The invention also comprises novel means, so that when said delix-ering-horn is extended and also attached to a talking-machine the same may be held locked in said extended position.

Thls-invention is a very efiicient device and may be manufactured with but little expense and sold very reasonably to the trade.

' The invention comprises other and further objects, which will be hereinafter more fullv described and then specifically defined in the appended claims. I y invention is illustrated inv the accompanying drawings, which, with the figures of reference marked thereon, form a part of my ap lication, and in which igure' 1 is a side elevation of the improved horn. Fig. 2 is a side view of the horn, showing' the same collapsed and packed in a case, the latter being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. F ig. e is a detail view of two sections of the horn,

" showing the same ready to be assembled.

Referr ng more specifically to the ac-conipanylng' drawings byreference-minierals, l,

3 2, 3', 4, 5, and 6 designate, respectively, each section which comprise the delivery-horn, each section being providedwith a suitable I longitudinal dovetailed depression .7, which will'aot as a tongue or groove'for each adjacent section when the same is extended or collapsed. To enable the sections to be locked when the ho n isjcollapsed, thesaid depressions are eac provided at the end thereof with a caniniedbilset 8, serving as a stop, and having a depression 5 which is adapted to engage a like depression of the 5115i jacent section. This construction is for the urpose of allowing the delivery-horn to be rn'ly locked when desired. In Fig. 4 oi the drawings hasbeen shown two-sections. of the horn adapted and ready to be assembled, It is obvious that the largeend of the smaller section 4 is larger than the small end of the larger section 5, and

the dovetailed depression of the smaller section would prevent the latter from being connected with the larger section by inserting it at the large end of the latter; but it has been found that the smaller section may be readily compressed and the larger section correspondingly expanded sulliciently to permit theni to be assembled by inserting the large end of the smaller section into the small end usually and preferably constructed of sheet metal sulliciently resilient for the purpose, When all the sections of the horn have been thus assembled, the dovetailed members constitute guides or slides that enable the horn to be readily collapsed, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and which being 1n constant engageprevented by the interlocking depressions 9 until suil'icient force is exerted manually to disengage said depressions.

From the foregoing it will be observed that a very efficient and'inexpensive device is provided whereby a delivery-horn maybe collapsed and packed within a metallic tube for the purpose of shipping the same to any'desvarious changes can be made in the details of construction and comblnations of parts othen than those illustrated in the acconipanyin'g sections; said depressions being provided withterrnlnal oil'sets forming stops. i

it is equally obvious that the oll'set 8 upon 01' the larger, section, said sections being"- ment prevent the several sections from. ratthng or shaking, extension of the horn being Of course it is distinctly understood that IOC tongue-a1idgroove connections foradjacent IIO 3 A collapsible horn for talking-machines the sections of the horn against extending composed of a plurality of sections having inwhen collapsed. terengaging dovetailed depressions forming In testimony'whereof I have hereto affixed tongue-and-groove connections for adjacent my signature in the presence of two Witnesses. sections; said depressions being provided WILLIS J. LITTS with terminal offsets forming stops, said oif- Witnesses sets being provided with depressions or in- GORA. R. Li'rTs, dentations adapted to interlock and to secure I FANNIE M. laws. 

